Molly Shannon Quotes
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If it's not happening, write your own thing!
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I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.
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Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
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I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.
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There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.
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I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.
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I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.
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I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
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I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
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The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.
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People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
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I want to do something I feel like I can do.
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You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.
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I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
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In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.
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You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
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Marriage can be complicated.